Quality and Patient Safety Advisor - Transfusion Safety (Local)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Nashville (TN); Vor Ort; USD 75.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville seeks a Quality Improvement Advisor to provide project management facilitation, education, and data analysis to improve clinical quality, patient safety, and financial outcomes.

You will support the Transfusion Safety program, collaborate with hospital leaders to align safety protocols with regulatory requirements, and help develop educational programs for clinical teams, with an onsite focus on the main campus.

Qualifikationen

• Regulatory compliance knowledge and ability to apply rules in complex settings.
• Ability to interpret and explain regulations; train others.
• Facilitation of group discussions and front-of-room sessions.
• Understanding of quality, safety, patient-centered care in healthcare settings.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage resources to meet deadlines.
• Translate data findings into actionable improvement plans.

Aufgaben

• Supports the Vanderbilt Health Transfusion Safety program under direction of department hospital leaders to align with overall quality and safety plan.
• Collaborates with hospital leaders to establish, monitor, and maintain safety protocols and procedures to promote safe patient care and in compliance with clinical policies and regulatory requirements.
• Establishes and maintains effective communication and coordination with operational and clinical staff to support safe and evidence‑based transfusion practices.
• Manages and communicates data and information relevant to hospital goals and initiatives related to transfusion practices.
• Participates in clinical review of workflows and analysis of non‑conforming events.
• Participates in the development and delivery of educational programs for clinical team members.

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Regulatory compliance

Judgement & decision

Front of Room Facilitation

Healthcare Organizational Dynamics

Prioritization

Data Transformation into Information

Relationship Building

Improvement Methodology

Harm Risks identification/evaluation

Strategic Planning

Data Analysis

Project Management

Time Management

Communication

Change Management

Jobbeschreibung

Discover Vanderbilt Health : With eight hospitals and over 180 clinics, we are the region's largest comprehensive academic health system. Vanderbilt Health has a long tradition of providing world‑class care to the people of the Mid‑South, living out our mission of moving medicine forward through preeminent programs in patient care, education and research. Here you'll find a spirit of collaboration and a supportive community where your expertise is valued, your knowledge expanded and your uniqueness celebrated. We are committed to fostering an environment where talented, compassionate people are united in bringing the most advanced care to our neighbors throughout the region.

Organization: Quality, Safety & Risk Prevent

Job Summary: Serves as a quality improvement advisor to provide project management facilitation, education, and data analysis for improvement of systems and processes, under occasional guidance. Facilitates the development, implementation and evaluation of organizational strategies to improve clinical quality and care, patient safety, and financial outcomes.

Note: This is local onsite role, primarily supporting our main campus in Nashville.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the Vanderbilt Health Transfusion Safety program under direction of department hospital leaders to align with overall quality and safety plan
• Collaborates with hospital leaders to establish, monitor, and maintain safety protocols and procedures to promote safe patient care and in compliance with clinical policies and regulatory requirements
• Establishes and maintains effective communication and coordination with operational and clinical staff to support safe and evidence‑based transfusion practices
• Manages and communicates data and information relevant to hospital goals and initiatives related to transfusion practices
• Participates in clinical review of workflows and analysis of non‑conforming events
• Participates in the development and delivery of educational programs for clinical team members

Technical Capabilities

• Regulatory Compliance (Novice): Demonstrates knowledge of the appropriate rules and regulations and apply them in difficult, stressful and complex situations. Able to interpret and explain rules and regulations that are ambiguous or unclear. Directs others in interpreting rules and regulations on the job and trains others in them.
• Judgement and Decision‑Making (Novice): Able to make decisions effectively and accurately in an environment which may be fast‑paced or changing. Considers a wide range of alternatives, including those which may fall outside of the scope of the task at hand, before making a decision.
• Front of Room Facilitation (Intermediate): Helping people manage The information they already possess or can access to achieve a necessary result in a timely and collaborative manner. Guide The process and structures activities using a particular facilitation methodology without content knowledge or subject matter expertise.
• Healthcare Organizational Dynamics (Intermediate): Demonstrate knowledge and impact of quality, value, and patient‑centered care in the current and future healthcare landscape and continuum of care
• Prioritization/ Targeted Focus (Intermediate): Distill down needed work to focus teams with limited resources on critical path, while keeping the larger picture in mind. Effectively message and focus teams on critical path in light of larger efforts.
• Data Transformation into Information (Intermediate): Create and Interpret data findings through appropriate methods of data visualization. Identify opportunities for improvement, translate into improvement plans, and develop requirements to support improvement initiatives
• Relationship Building (Intermediate): Develops cooperative internal and external relationships.
• Improvement Methodology (Intermediate): Lead teams in quality and performance improvement methodology, including facilitating opportunity analysis, key driver diagrams, performance measure requirements, and PDSA improvement cycles (EA, FMEA, CTQ)
• Identification/Evaluation for Harm Risks (Intermediate): Develop a process that identifies and reports patient safety risks, near misses, and adverse events. Integrate best practices and evidence‑based mitigation strategies. Interpret and communicate findings.
• Strategic Planning (Novice): The ability to define a strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources.
• Data Analysis (Intermediate): The ability to analyze data in an accurate manner.
• Project Management (Intermediate): Planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.
• Time Management (Intermediate): Planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities.
• Communication (Intermediate): Clearly, effectively and respectfully communicates to employees or customers.
• Change Management (Intermediate): Establishes a structured methodology for responding